'No. excuses' key to dieters weight loss challenge goals

"For years, Jim stone, felt 53, an engineer in Madison, Ala., he didnt have time to lose weight and get in shape."He says "I was very busy with work and family and thought, it would take to much time and effort to shed the weight and, would it lean results".But then he noticed that older, overweight friends and family members began to have medical problems on your extra pounds.Over a year ago, stone weight loss program challenge, our annual healthy diet and exercise after the USA today kicked off. He joined weight watchers and started walking or with an elliptical almost a year later, he has lost at least one hour per day and strength training 20-40 minutes per Tag.Jetzt, 69 pounds. 6-Foot-1 he now weighs 213, down from 282. Later stone sees that lack one time great excuse not. He had the time but only took. "I called other things important." "Now I believe the time to exercise an important part of my day."A change is made: he built a lot walking in his life. "I always make sure I get an hour a day", he says. "What I learned is that when I go somewhere in the workplace, take the stairs." I'm always half an hour for lunch. I walk around the neighborhood at night with my wife. I try to go to the gym every day after work.Linda Pottinger lost 28 poundsLinda Pottinger, 54, healthcare consultant in Oregon, ill., aside also your excuses and weight lost blamed your extra pounds last year with the weight loss Challenge.She on your "gene" and the fact that much traveling for your job and often in restaurants eats you, but you wanted to become healthier, so you around for her grandchildren.She decided if other people could lose weight, you could also. But this meant that I had"to do the work." "It would be passed to me on a silver platter."It began, limiting your calories to about 1,200 a day and work energetically on the ELLIPTICAL at least 30 minutes a day. Now 150, weighs 5-foot-3 Pottinger down from 178 last fall.Paula Brown-grey lost 34 poundsPaula Brown-grey, an artist in Lamberville, Michigan, had a laundry list of excuses for why didnt you lose weight and shape up.She loves chocolate and don't want to give it up. She don't think you could exercise for an hour a day. And you knew, was consuming too many calories and did not know how to cut. Then saw a photo of yourself that you thought that was "terrible", so that you started the Challenge.For a year, it has tracking your calories and exercise. Ride a tandem bicycle with her husband or floats an hour a day, and is the dog's 40 minutes per day. Eats of chocolate every week. 5-Foot 4½, you now weighs in at 156, down from 190.Guidelines: share today community in the United States, how to keep your comments smart please, and civil society. Non-personally access to other readers, and keep your language clean. You make using the "report abuse" button, make a difference. Read more.

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